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Thomas Bailey Aldrich

When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence.

Struggle, Independence

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age.

Heart, Old Age, Triumph

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possible thing, they always set themselves down on the most desirable spots.

Value, Perception, Down

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

ownership, possession

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

After a debauch of thundershower the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

They fail and they alone who have not striven.

failures, mistakes

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

art, beauty, inspiration, lovely

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.

birds, happiness, imagery, seasons

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

art, beauty, inspiration, lovely

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.

birds, happiness, imagery, seasons